OK, I solved the problem.
My snort.conf file had a line in section 9 (SO rules) saying this:
include $SO_RULE_PATH/so_rules.rules
This file (so_rules.rules) did not exist, however, because I was dumping the rules for the first time in this machine. That caused the problem.
I issued the command:
touch so_rules.rules
in that directory and then snort was able to dump the rules without a problem.
SecAficionado
> On Nov 1, 2014, at 2:01 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 at ...14940...> wrote:
>>> On 11/1/2014 1:12 AM, Sec_Aficionado wrote:
>>>> I have double and triple-checked snort.conf to make sure all the paths are
>> correct and there are no extraneous "/etc/" anywhere, but the error persists.
>> Is there a requirement to dump the stubs into /etc/?
>> snort stuffs that extraneous /etc/ onto paths while trying to find what it has
> been told to find... something isn't right somewhere...
>> double-check your command line and the location of the binary so rules that
> snort is trying to create the rules stubs from...
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